After the dust of the competition had settled, several adventurers dragged the bugbear Kenny's body back, along with his belongings.
In this matter, Allen did not stop the other party. Although the other party acted a little unscrupulously, there were outsiders watching, and Allen hoped that this matter would make the outsiders who came to find delicious food feel worried.
After a noisy and lively competition, Green Lake Village has returned to its former peace. The tribesmen are working conscientiously at their posts, and occasionally chat about anecdotes from the competition after dinner.
"Patriarch, this is the account book of Thornburg Pasta Restaurant from the past few months that Kerr and the others brought back this time."
Camellia looked a little hesitant. At the monthly gathering, she took out a stack of ledgers and pushed them in front of Allen.
Allen frowned and asked with some confusion: "What, is there something wrong?"
Although Allen is diligent in studying, he naturally does not have the energy or ability to handle tedious matters such as managing treasury income and expenditures himself. Therefore, Allen handed over the management of the village accounting room to people like Camellia and Tony who had some basic arithmetic skills, and they were in charge. With Camellia, a shrewd female, taking care of the warehouse, no one should be able to tamper with it.
"From the books, there are no problems with these noodle shops, and the income and expenses are all listed."
"However, one of these four noodle shops has seen its revenue drop by almost 20% this month, while the other three have not. Maybe there are some problems."
Camellia frowned. She didn't want to think about the matter in this aspect, but after all, this was the scope of her control, so she had to raise these doubts. As for how to deal with the doubts, it was up to Chief Allen to make his own decision.
"I looked through their purchase of supplies and found that they also reduced their expenditure by about 20%, but when I looked through the inventory, I didn't find any remaining ingredients for the 20%."
Noodles such as dumplings and steamed buns are actually not difficult to make, otherwise Allen would not have researched them first. So in these years, it’s not that there weren’t smart people who imitated Allen’s pasta dishes, but in the end, diners still came to Allen’s Pasta Restaurant to dine. The reason is that Allen and the others placed the raw materials for the ingredients in the village. Every few months, a batch of supplies is sent to Thornburg Castle, which prevents the market from trying to imitate the dishes of Allen's Pasta Restaurant.
"What do you mean?"
Allen seemed to have thought of something, but he was not sure, so he asked Camellia.
"I think the manager of that noodle restaurant may have dirty employees."
Camellia told the truth, but she didn't actually see this happening.
"..."
Allen's expression turned gloomy, and a group of people around him fell silent, not daring to speak.
Ah Xiao felt uneasy, as his hands and feet in the mine were actually a little dirty, but he was not so bold as to go too far. After all, there is no other hard currency except food and iron in the Green Field Plain. The so-called money is not even as attractive as a meal of meat in the eyes of A Xiao and others.
The reason for his anxiety is that in the mine where he works, when the fine iron and associated gems are returned at the end of each month, a thief will always appear to steal the associated gems they find during mining.
For this reason, Ah Xiao had carried out numerous random checks throughout the mine, but could not find any trace of the thief.
Even if he changes the location where he hides the gems, or even keeps them close to him, the thief can always succeed. The only thing that made Ah Xiao feel lucky was that the thief seemed to be mentally ill and did not steal all the gems. He only took away the more valuable gems, leaving behind the larger but less valuable red turquoise and white gems. Crystals and the like.
The uses of these gems are not widespread in the village, that is, Manduli and his wife will use some when making equipment, or the two low-level alchemists trained in the village will use a little, and the rest will mostly be given away. Go to Linus of Thorn Castle and let him complete the research on various druid magic.
Therefore, when there was no way to find out the thief, A Xiao could only ask those in the mine who knew about it to shut their mouths, as if the mine had never had these gems.
"Next time you go to Thornburg, Mauro, you can lead a team there and bring me the manager of the store and all the clerks."
Allen's tone was cold. Although the matter has not been settled, Allen believed that there might not be too much trouble. Sometimes, he couldn't understand what the minds of intelligent races were thinking. Although life had finally become good, they were always dissatisfied and wanted to live a better life.
There is nothing wrong with this in the first place, but the mistake lies in the fact that some people cannot satisfy their selfish desires through normal means, but start to engage in unscrupulous means in private.
Allen is not a person who doesn't know how to adapt. Maybe he seems stingy many times, but he never feels that he is stingy when it comes to treating people who have made contributions in the village.
The village's biggest source of income is the noodle restaurant opened outside. As someone who has set up a stall, Allen knows that the better the business of this noodle restaurant, the harder it will be for the clerks and supervisors who manage the noodle restaurant. Therefore, although money is of little use in the village, these supervisors are in a prosperous place like Castle of Thorns, so money is of great use. Allen paid the salaries to the employees sent by the village according to the salary level of the catering industry in Castle of Thorns, so that they could live a better life in Castle of Thorns.
"clear."
"Teacher, Grandpa Ferok said that he would like to give you some time to go to Thorn Castle. He wants to tell you something."
Kerr, who was taught a lesson by Allen in the martial arts competition, has now adjusted her mentality. Especially after seeing the battle between her teacher and the bugbear adventurer, she felt ashamed of her naive thoughts.
When she heard about the Castle of Thorns, Kerr, who was just an observer, quickly interrupted to prevent herself from forgetting the matter. However, Kerr still forgot another sentence of old man Ferok's instructions. After all, the old man said it to Irene, a timid little guy. Later, when Irene relayed it to Kerr, some of her words failed to convey what she meant.
"...Well, in this case, you don't have to go, Mauro. I will personally lead the team to Thorn Castle next time."
"good."
"Is there anything else?"
Allen knocked on the table and scanned the 7-8 bosses around him and asked.
"...Clan Leader, I feel that the wilderness seems to be a little uneasy recently."
Mauro was a little hesitant. As the leader of the hunting team, he often took turns leading the team to hunt in the wilderness with the Blackheads to obtain meat for the village. In recent days, he found that there seemed to be very few prey in the surrounding area, especially in the areas with abundant aquatic plants in the Zhuoshui River area. The number of various social animals had decreased greatly, which was a rare situation in the past ten years.
Moreover, there are very few signs of other indigenous activities on the border of the tribal territory, as if these indigenous people have disappeared silently for a while.
Of course, these are just some of Mauro's own observations. If he were to come up with actual evidence, he would have no choice.
"oh?"
Allen narrowed his eyes. The storm of the genocide in Broken Bone Village had not yet completely subsided. After hearing Mauro's report, Allen was also very worried whether there was really any crisis lurking around the wilderness.
"Is there any proof?"
"No."
Mauro shook his head, and the expressions of the other leaders suddenly became dull, as if Mauro was making a fuss out of a molehill.
"It's just a feeling."
"The only signs are that the prey around the Zhuoshui River has decreased, and the signs of other indigenous activities near the boundaries of our territory have disappeared."
"What you said is right. The reason for the lack of prey is naturally found in your hunting team. As for the signs of activities of the surrounding tribes, don't you think about it. How many tribes dare to be neighbors around our tribe now?"
Ah Xiao, who was all fat and fat, leaned back on the wooden chair behind him, making Mauro a little uncomfortable with his appearance.
The relationship between the leaders of the clan seems to be a bit delicate now, and there are gradually signs of several small gangs among close relatives.
However, what Ah Xiao said was not unreasonable. Not to mention the prey, he only talked about the gradually decreasing number of tribes in the Green Field Plain. This was related to the fact that the Green Field Tribe had killed other tribesmen several times as their own slaves. With such a powerful tribe existing, it is not certain that any surrounding tribe would not want to stay away from them. Perhaps everyone would move away from their original location.
"...When your hunting team goes out to hunt recently, arrange more manpower. By the way, pay more attention to the two aspects mentioned by Mauro and collect information on this aspect."
Although Mauro could not provide proof, according to his personality, he should not falsely report these things. For the sake of safety, Allen still felt that it was necessary to strengthen his vigilance and be careful before he could use the Wannian Ship.
"And you, the defense team, should also pay more attention."
"Ah Xiao, you can't be careless in the mine, do you hear me?"
"knew."
Ah Xiao replied feebly, which made Allen still a little worried, but Ah Xiao had managed the mine well over the years, so he didn't want to be too harsh, so he had to glare at the other person to cheer him up quickly. He shouted back: "Understood."
Because he was worried about the recent situation in the plains, and because Kerr and the others had just returned from Thorn Castle not long ago, Allen temporarily gave up the idea of leaving for Thorn Castle, and instead stayed in the village to see the situation in the plains.
In the wilderness, two figures ran wildly like the wind. Allen and Flower Snake were rarely seen as companions, cruising in the green plains.
This is the fourth day since the two of them came out. As the Green Field Tribe has grown stronger, their territorial influence has gradually expanded, and now they have a huge territory with a radius of more than two hundred miles.
Such a large territory will definitely annex a lot of indigenous tribes, and the destination of the annexed tribal population is naturally A Xiao's mine. Anyway, he needs a lot of manpower there and consumes a lot of money, so there is no need to worry about whether it will be resettled. Come down.
The three or two tribes like the Ivan tribe, which maintain good relations with the Green Field tribe and are already equivalent to the peripheral forces of the Green Field tribe, have also moved out, giving up their original territory and settling in relatively distant and more important locations. . This not only avoids disputes with the Green Field Tribe, but also helps the Green Field Tribe to guard against incoming enemies from surrounding areas and warn them in advance.
However, what they saw during this outing made Allen and Hua She's expressions somewhat grim, because indeed, as Mauro said, there were really few traces of indigenous activities around their territory, at least when Allen and Hua She were patrolling. For several days, they saw no sign of other indigenous people.
